Man Shot At Stockwell Tube Station

[bartender100]

LONDON: -- Emergency services are attending three different Tube stations in

London following a series of "incidents".

They have also responded to reports of an incident on a bus in Hackney Road, east London, Scotland Yard said.

It is believed the driver heard an explosion on the bus and windows are understood to have been blown out.

A British Transport Police spokeswoman said Warren Street, Shepherds Bush and Oval stations had all been evacuated.

She said the incidents were "ongoing".

Passengers at Warren Street reported seeing smoke and there were unconfirmed reports of an explosion or shooting at the station.

[Boo]

the latest in london is that the 3 incidents were due to the detonators going off in back packs but no actual large explosions, there is also an unconfirmed report of a nail bonmb & a bus had an explosion as well. Personally I think it's some copycat <deleted>, just too pathetic if it is the real terrorists, they wouldn't bother with scare tactics like this, they would have gone for the real deal again

[george]

Possible explosions on London underground

LONDON: -- Police have evacuated three underground train lines in London and cordoned off large areas around the Tubestations after a what appears to have been dummy explosions on Thursday afternoon.

Police helicopters are flying overhead and police are moving people behind the cordoned area around the tube station.

Police told ISN Security only that there had been “incidents” in the area, but a tube worker at Shepherd’s Bush’s second station said they had heard that three bombs had exploded on the line.

According to the BBC, there had been dummy explosions using only detonators on the tube line. There were reports of smoke coming from two of the stations. No injuries were reported. But London Underground officials said the nature of the incident was still unknown.

The Northern Line, the Victoria Line, and the Hammersmith and City lines have all been suspected.

The BBC quoted a commuter at the Oval station as saying that he had heard a small bank and saw a man run off when the Tube reached the station.

Another witness who was evacuated from the train said the passengers smelt smoke and “everyone was panicked and people were screaming”.

The incident comes only two weeks after four bombs exploded on the London transport network, killing 55 people and wounding hundreds of others.

Earlier this week, a grouped allegedly linked to al-Qaida posted a statement on the internet, claiming responsibility for the 7 July London bombings and warning of more attacks on European cities.

--Agencies 2005-07-21 at 20:25 BKK time

[george]

CNN: 3 or 4 explosions:

Stay home if you are in London!

BKK time 20:34

[britmaveric]

Here we go again!

[tso310]

Was 20 metres from Warren Street when it was evacuated. No sign of any smoke. The police aren't letting anyone out of our building as the whole area has been cordoned off, I'm next to the PO Tower . All quite calm until he heard the Aussies were out for 190.

The police have said it is not a major incident.

[dereklev]

CNN: 3 or 4 explosions:

Stay home if you are in London!

BKK time 20:34

I am in London!

The news is very conflicting ranging from detonators exploding to nail bombs to failed attempted suicide bombers!

Metropolitan police chief is advising people to stay put.

Sound advice I think!

[britmaveric]

[Davey]

There is also an uncofirmed report of gunshots being heard in one of the tube stations, at present 1 person has been injured

and yes the aussies are all out 190, Steve Harmison with another 5 wicker haul

[wolf5370]

I'm in London at the moment. Just got this message broadcast from work (truncated to remove usual business related stuff about staff transit etc):

You may be aware that a number of incidents have been reported in London. The police are not treating these as major incidents and there are no confirmed casualties at this stage.

I'm working for a major international company at the moment, so expect the info to be accurate. Sounds like it was just detonators.

Hackney and Bethnal Green are on the East End of London. It is a residential area away from business centres. It is also, by far, a poor Muslim area (Pakistani/Bangladeshi). It is a very strange place for terrorists to target - not high profile.

The lack of planning and equiptment (plastique), I think, shows it likely to be a copy-cat rather than organised strike inj the scale to the recent acts.

Oh well, looks like wifey is picking me up tonight. Hope it doesn't bugger up Sunday's Thai Festival at Battersea Park!

[george]

Tube cleared after small blasts

LONDON: -- A number of Tube stations have been evacuated and lines closed after three blasts in what Met Police chief Sir Ian Blair says is a "serious incident".

Sir Ian appealed to Londoners to stay where they were and said the transport system was effectively being shut down.

The minor explosions - just two weeks after blasts killed 56 - involved detonators only, a BBC reporter said.

In addition, a blast was reported on the top deck of a Number 26 bus in Hackney Road in Bethnal Green.

Initial tests at Oval station revealed no traces of any chemical agent, police said.

Police said officers in protective clothing had been deployed to Warren Street to examine the scene.

Casualties 'low'

Large areas around Warren Street, Oval and the Shepherd's Bush Hammersmith and City line Tube stations have been cordoned off.

One person was injured at Warren Street. There were reports the injured person may have been holding a rucksack containing the detonator.

London Underground went to 'amber' alert status

Sir Ian told reporters: "The casualty numbers appear to be very low in the explosions.

"The bombs appear to be smaller than on the last occasion but we don't know the implications of all this yet."

He appealed for witnesses with mobile phone pictures of any of the incidents to send them to www.police.uk.

The BBC's Andrew Winstanley said devices had been found but appeared to have been dummies, containing no explosives.

Lines suspended

Police said armed officers had been deployed to University College Hospital after an incident. A large area was cordoned off.

The hospital has not received any casualties or been alerted to casualties.

The whole of the Northern Line has been suspended, along with the Victoria Line, the Hammersmith and City line, the Waterloo and City line and the Bakerloo line.

Police have set up cordons round the stations

A number of other stations were closed including Great Portland Street, Westminster, Waterloo, St Paul's and Oxford Circus tube stations, as well as Waterloo tube station and King's Cross Thameslink.

Tony Blair cancelled events in the afternoon and attended a meeting of the Cobra committee along with Sir Ian. Whitehall was briefly closed down.

London Underground went to an amber alert with trains taken to the next station and evacuated.

An eyewitness at Oval station said there had been a small bang, and a man had then run off when the Tube reached the station.

A spokesman for Stagecoach said the driver of the number 26 bus travelling through Shoreditch had heard a bang on upper deck, gone upstairs and seen the windows were blown out.

The bus driver was very shaken but said to be fine.

At Shepherd's Bush Hammersmith and City line station, police told reporters that a man had threatened to blow himself up and then ran off.

Sosiane Mohellavi, 35, was travelling from Oxford Circus to Walthamstow when she was evacuated from a train at Warren Street.

"I was in the carriage and we smelt smoke - it was like something was burning. "Everyone was panicked and people were screaming. We had to pull the alarm. I am still shaking."

The BBC's Rory Barnett said there had been no smoke on the platform at Warren Street.

--BBC 2005-07-21 at 21:20 BKK time

[Rinrada]

The latest reports say that its just a couple of little bombs......so thats all right then innit.

Just had a word with the policeman outside the local tube station..who disna know for sure, but the Victoria Line from Highbury to Walthamstow Central is still running.(ha natti ago)

However with the amount of police cars running about avec sirenes blairing ....its surely time for a coffee.

[Rinrada]

just to add ....all other underground tube and overhead railways routes have been suspended....

[george]

Update:

London blasts cause chaos on Tube

Situation under control - No fatalaties - London Police

LONDON: -- The Tube has been plunged into chaos and several stations evacuated after minor blasts on three trains and a bus.

Met Police chief Sir Ian Blair said only three Tube lines were still suspended and it was time London started to return to normal.

The minor explosions - just two weeks after blasts killed 56 - involved detonators only, a BBC reporter said. There was only one injury.

A blast was also reported on a Number 26 bus in Bethnal Green.

There were no injuries and the bus suffered no structural damage.

Eyewitnesses heard bangs and saw abandoned rucksacks at the sites of the incidents at Warren Street, Shepherd's Bush Hammersmith and City line and Oval tube stations as well as the number 26 bus.

At Warren Street and Oval a man was seen running away from the scene.

Large areas around all four sites were cordoned off.

One person was injured at Warren Street. There were reports the injured person may have been holding a rucksack containing the detonator.

Sir Ian appealed for witnesses with mobile phone pictures of any of the incidents to send them to www.police.uk.

And he said it was "time to get London moving" again.

Prime Minister Tony Blair said: "We can't minimise incidents such as this because they obviously have been serious in the four different places as we know.

"I think all I'd like to say is this that we know why these things are done, they're done to scare people and to frighten them, to make them anxious and worried."

The BBC's Andrew Winstanley said devices had been found but appeared to have been dummies, containing no explosives.

Police said armed officers were deployed to University College Hospital after an incident. A large area was cordoned off, but the incident is now over.

There were reports a memo had been circulated to staff to look out for a 6ft 2in black or Asian man with wires sticking out of his top.

The hospital has not received any casualties or been alerted to casualties.

A man was arrested near Downing Street by armed police and led away down Whitehall.

The whole of the Northern Line has been suspended, along with the Victoria Line, the Hammersmith and City line, Piccadilly and the Bakerloo line.

Police have set up cordons round the stations

A number of other stations were closed including Great Portland Street, Westminster, Waterloo, St Paul's and Oxford Circus tube stations, as well as Waterloo tube station and King's Cross Thameslink.

Tony Blair cancelled events in the afternoon and attended a meeting of the Cobra committee along with Sir Ian. Whitehall was briefly closed down.

London Underground went to an amber alert with trains taken to the next station and evacuated.

An eyewitness at Oval station said there had been a small bang, and a man had then run off when the Tube reached the station.

A spokesman for Stagecoach said the driver of the number 26 bus travelling through Shoreditch had heard a bang on upper deck, gone upstairs and seen the windows were blown out.

The bus driver was very shaken but said to be fine.

At Shepherd's Bush Hammersmith and City line station, police told reporters that a man had threatened to blow himself up and then ran off.

Sosiane Mohellavi, 35, was travelling from Oxford Circus to Walthamstow when she was evacuated from a train at Warren Street.

"I was in the carriage and we smelt smoke - it was like something was burning. "Everyone was panicked and people were screaming. We had to pull the alarm. I am still shaking."

--BBC 2005-07-26

[Jockstar]

One uncomfirmed report from and eyewitness. He saw some guy with a backpack and smoke coming out. The guy who saw this said that the guy with the back pack was looking at it as if to say Why TF didnt it go off. Sorry! But this is what they said on CNN.

[britmaveric]

Well it seems these last lot were like the shoe bomber - not very bright and managed to muck it up. thank god.

[OxfordWill]

A sort of irony, not even being able to blow yourself up properly. Glad noone was hurt.

[The_Moog]

I think not-blowing-yourself-up is actually quite a clever thing to do.

Rather smarter than the four on 7/7. This lot must have read the stories about suicide bombers' heads being blown off like fireworks and thought 'bugger that'.

(I wonder though if this team were pranksters).

Edited July 21, 2005 by The_Moog

[Jockstar]

I think not-blowing-yourself-up is actually quite a clever thing to do.

Rather smarter than the four on 7/7. This lot must have read the stories about suicide bombers' heads being blown off like fireworks and thought 'bugger that'.

(I wonder though if this team were pranksters).

Could be anyone really. How easy is it to walk onto the London UG with a backpack. Glad there was no casualties.

[Nam Kao]

Someday it'll be a Nuke

[Zarkow]

the latest in london is that the 3 incidents were due to the detonators going off in back packs but no actual large explosions, there is also an unconfirmed report of a nail bonmb & a bus had an explosion as well. Personally I think it's some copycat <deleted>, just too pathetic if it is the real terrorists, they wouldn't bother with scare tactics like this, they would have gone for the real deal again

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Was just about to post that.

Looser-&lt;deleted&gt; with no more ambition in life then being remembered, no-matter for what, sees the chance. They aren't clever enough to be tricked into being real suicide-bombers, so they decide to be one themselfs...and fail.

The irony is staggering.

[tso310]

The Police cordon where I worked was lifted at about 3:30pm. TCR and the upper part of Charing X Road closed as I walked down to Charing X. I'll be at work tomorrow like ALL of my colleagues. We will not be scared away by these people.

[Bangkokbutcher]

We will not be scared away by these people.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well said tso310!!

[sunchild]

What would Al Qaida do against Christian or Hindu or Buddhist fanatics bombing Mekka? There are enough muslim targets. Thailands south is suffering already!

Maybe all young muslims should be deported to antarctica...just for prevention.

[tso310]

What would Al Qaida do against Christian or Hindu or Buddhist fanatics bombing Mekka? There are enough muslim targets. Thailands south is suffering already!

Maybe all young muslims should be deported to antarctica...just for prevention.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Don't take this the wrong way but that is exactly the reaction that these people want. Thankfully London is a genuinely multi-cultural city and you will see only a minimal backlash at the Islamic community.

[opothai]

never have i been racialist, but suicide w+++ers have changed the way i think. in england we are not ready for this cenario we are to soft, and all to tolerant of ethnic minorities that now have more rights than an english born unfotunately white person.

i am married to a thai woman there for not intorerant of of cross culture and they are the same as the english live and let live,

how and why do i have to tolerate and understand a people who do not want to live and abide by the laws of this land but choose to live here and abuse the privalages offered to them.

being not a young person i am now willing to fight for what my father and my grand father fought for, freedom of speech and an open land

i have children and i do not want them growing up in this shit situation that is or was england.

i am now worried for their future.

i now will view muslims as terrorist until they can prove me wrong.

[Artisan]

never have i been racialist, but suicide w+++ers have changed the way i think. in england we are not ready for this cenario we are to soft, and all to tolerant of ethnic minorities that now have more rights than an english born unfotunately white person.

i am married to a thai woman there for not intorerant of of cross culture and they are the same as the english live and let live,

how and why do i have to tolerate and understand a people who do not want to live and abide by the laws of this land but choose to live here and abuse the privalages offered to them.

being not a young person i am now willing to fight for what my father and my grand father fought for, freedom of speech and an open land 

i have children and i do not want them growing up in this shit situation that is or was england.

i am now  worried for their future.

i now will view muslims as terrorist until they can prove me wrong.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well said Mr. Opothai. I concur completely.

[LadyinRed]

i now will view muslims as terrorist until they can prove me wrong.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Not quite - there are more (unreported) atrocities in say, Iraq.

There are normal Muslims in this world who really are just living their lives without any involvement in terrorism/ extremities (sp.).

I have many friends who are Muslims and will never point the you-are-terrorists fingers at them just because bombs are going off in a western country.

[chonburi]

I'm all for tolerance as long as it is on all sides. It does seem to me though that the UK, certainly it's Government and it's PC brigade plus the general populace have been way too tolerant of the enmies within. I'm not suggestting that there should be a complete about turn from what is but I do think that it is time to stop being Mr/Mrs nice guys to those that live in the country yet preach and practice hatred and contempt of the society that they entered voluntarily. Those elements whatever their complexion or religion should be escorted politely to the airport and consigned to wherever they will feel more content. The UK or any other civilised western society does not need them, get rid of the pariahs.

[The Dude]

I get very upset when I see this nonsense happening to our good friends in England. I have total confidence in Scotland Yard and British /intelligence to get to the bottom of this and prevent further chaos. Naturally we in the USA will provide any resources whatsoever to aid